RE: [Acpi] acpi breaks async interface

[Grover, Andrew]

Well, someone else had PPP slowness due to ACPI idle, so I'd guess that's
the problem here too.

Workin' on it -- Andy

> From: Juraj Bednar [mailto:[e-mail]]
>  I just found a strange thing in 2.4.1 (don't know, if the same
> occured in 2.4.0) and 2.4.1-ac3. When I enable ACPI, my serial
> port starts to drop some characters. When making ppp over this
> and doing ping, it causes great packet losts. If I turn ACPI in
> this configuration off, it works with no problems. I tried to
> switch serial port IRQ to other one (was 4, switched to 3 and
> tested) and it didn't help. Maybe something's broken.

Where is ACPI below???

> [root@idoru log]# cat /proc/interrupts 
>            CPU0       
>   0:      57278          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:       2658          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   4:      49530          XT-PIC  serial
>   5:          1          XT-PIC  soundblaster
>  10:         15          XT-PIC  aha152x
>  11:         60          XT-PIC  eth0
>  12:      27772          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  14:     213118          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:       3298          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0 
> LOC:          0 
> ERR:          0